5 Underplanting Examples to Grow Vegetables Out of Season & Save Space
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- In this video, I give you examples of how to grow two or more plants in the same garden space by underplanting or intercropping to help protect from the elements such as the harsh sun or to save space and grow more food in a smaller area.
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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)
you should make a video about how you guys preserve your produce, that would be something that I would be very interested in and I imagine that many people would enjoy that
Thanks for the suggestion! Also, check out my recipe and preserving playlist th-cam.com/video/XxSowApiP1E/w-d-xo.html All the best :)
I agree! It would help me to get my crop to last longer. Perhaps by canning jars or the investment on a freeze dryer. M
I was about to ask, how can one possibly eat so much corn before it spoils? Or all they all planted in sequence such that they ripen at a different time?
I agree please make a video on that
@@EctoMorpheus also, he got help from the chickens
The first time I saw "underplanting" was 10 or 15 years ago when I visited Tunesia. In an oasis I saw orange trees and grape vines planted under the tall palm trees. Under the orange and fruit trees were pepper and tomato plants. It was really impressive how they used the palm trees to protect against the sun and grow so many other things!
I get tickled every time Mark mentions his raised garden beds, he loves them so much. cheers love!
right?! he should just marry them at this point ;)
Native Americans taught what is known as the three sisters method of cropping, similarly to what you're doing here they would plant corn with beans and squash. The corn would provide trellis for the beans to climb. The beans would provide nitrogen and the squash ground cover. This undercropping/companion planting method works really well in my area of Arizona (USA). We have intense, arid heat throughout the summers. I've found that sunflowers, corn and even artichoke can provide excellent shade for various crops like lettuce and carrots. I've even had an over abundance of cilantro(coriander) stalks that we're going to seed act as excellent shade bearing plants for lettuce and cabbage to grow in the understory. Cheers great video! How's the chipper working out for you?
dulce0403 ...I tried but my beans grew twice as high as the corn and I ended up with training sticks and a great tangle. Beans were great, corn not so much.
@Old chunk of coal. "Myth" as in wideley held but false belief or myth as in traditional story? Because this is actually a real part of American agriculture.
thanks @dulce0403 for tell him about three sisters growing method. So now I do not have to.
@@gayedawn1 that’s why you go for a variety of corn that grows over 6 feet tall, or use bush beans that don’t climb as much.
Isn’t that just amazing? All the useful tips from people commenting is so very helpful.
And more props to corn for its shade, I’ve got mushrooms growing underneath that’ve survived 3 heatwaves.
I know this is an old comment, but thats a great idea! Thanks :)
I absolutely love your channel. My husband and I are gonna start some of these this spring. He is so excited to start changing our lifestyles to a self sufficient one. The name of your channel is spot on!
All the best to both of you! Get into it and grow a ton! Thanks 🙂👍
Thank you SO MUCH! I'm doing a NO BUY, NO SPEND year and so have started growing our own food. Learning sooooo much from your channel. Much gratitude from Northern ,NSW 😎
Eve & Artie with respect, you won’t be able to do this unless you’re eating the dirt. Even full scale farmers need the supermarkets
G'day Eve and Artie, thank you and all the best with your food garden! Cheers :)
@@dylanzrim1011 oh yes, we have some 'rules' with the no buy no spend. We can spend on necessities. Just no extra and/luxury purchases etc. Plus, the area we live in, we can do produce swaps. Thank you
@@Selfsufficientme thank you so much!!! It's been fun starting from scratch
I'm doing a no buy for many things and a low buy for other things. Growing more and more I n the raised beds.
Not that I don’t care about what’s happening there but it’s good to see you are still going because you really know your stuff and I’m sure people have learned so much from you Mark.
Marks growing principals can still be applied wherever you are. Yes, if you live in a place with freezing winters, you cannot grow veges outside and have yo start them inside or in a greenhouse, but during your growing season surely they will still work.
Love your videos, Mark.
Last year I let volunteer ground cherry grow under my corn, carrots under my tomatoes, amaranth greens under my okra, and purslane under my peppers. I ended up with double the produce, and the smaller plants also acted as green mulch to protect the soil.
I love watching your videos. I first saw you when I was searching for how to grow Avacado from seed back in November. Now my small balcony here in Beijing has turned into a garden. I just wanted to say thank you for all the helpful tips. Stay safe!
Three of my problems in SE Texas: (1) People have discouraged me from growing corn because of its low yield per plant, (2) those crazy manuals recommend spacing them 12 to 18 inches apart, and (3) the SE Texas sun can be brutal on a garden where I have very little shade. It sounds like corn is exactly what I need and lots of it! Thank you. I'm going to try it this year!
I’m in southern Louisiana and I say grow as much corn as you have the space for!! 6” apart as long as you have fertile soil (so 4 per square foot) and plant the seeds now! Btw. Lots of sun is good, it’s the wind that will wreck corn so plant the seeds about 3” deep! You won’t regret it
My raised beds are coming along in my small backyard garden. You have taught me so much. You are da man.
Just discovered your channel and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I'll be binge watching for days. Also, condolences to all our human and animal brothers and sisters for what they are enduring in the fires.
Live in New England, trying to control emotions of Jealousy. I can't watch anymore. Looks seriously good. I just miss my garden.
Also I'm in Canberra and I like checking out the difference in the growing seasons between you and I. We live in a big ol country Mark, its easily demonstrated in our growing conditions.
Glad you and the wife continue to be safe from these wildfires,garden on mate
Thanks for the idea to use corn as a windbreak and a living trellis! I haven’t grown corn yet so am keen to try it out in my garden. Cheers from Phillip Island
Ok great - G'day Belinda! :)
Love doing this after my tomatoes have taken off!
G'day Kevin! Yes true mate! Great space saver for any larger food crop. Cheers :)
I appreciate how you include different climate types or weather conditions in your videos. I'm in the tropics and I appreciate the extra information that applies to me.
i live close to you in a place called gympie and i get this all the time other veg growing under the bigger stuff. But thats probably the possum spreading the seeds around.
Aw yeah! I was just going on a Self Sufficient Me binge and this video came at the perfect time! Thanks for the great content Mark
Thank you Joshua! :)
Yes I just found some garlic that was growing under my tomato bushes. I love my raised beds and vegetables. I can't wait for Spring! Love your videos, stay safe and fire free.
First of all thank you for sharing all this knowledge with us. Secondly, if you haven't already, I think it would be cool if you made a video on the things you should do on a regular basis in your garden to keep your plants and soil healthy.
As someone who is very new to all this, keeping a list of all the things that should be done in the day/week/month would be very helpful.
Maybe you already have a video on this and haven't found it. You could also link some of your other videos in the description for more information on each topic.
Hi Mark, great examples of under planting. Some of my best plants ever, are self sown so i am particularly careful to pull out only the weeds and let the freebies have a chance. I threw out the gardening manual years ago because I don’t think Mother Nature ever read it. :) Nice 👍 video.
Thank you for sharing your garden wisdom...enjoy watching you
Thanks Mark! I have a small garden space so this is very helpful, and yes, healthily is indeed a word. Your garden is always a treat to see as are you. Your information is really useful and I appreciate your sharing. Blessings to you and your family.😊😂👵🐕🌲🎶from WA state grandma💞
Thank you Melody and blessings to you also! :)
It's always worth keeping seed from stuff that's grown out of season, as I find it's then almost hardier to our conditions in the next run. Keep planting them out, keep succession planting, eventually you end up with your own strain that really pushes the boundaries of the normal season for that plant.
Mark, can you tell me how often you water your garden through summer?
You just doubled my summer production! Many thanks!!!!
I'm in Western Sydney, not as hot as you. But my front garden bed in full sun I struggled to keep things alive or thriving in the middle of summer. After watching this video and another by Sustainable Holly in Perth, I tried popping a few sunflowers and purple amaranth in that bed last summer. What a difference the dappled shade from those plants made to the rest of the bed. Plants underneath thrived! I will be doing it again this coming summer.
Brilliant. I've always thought of the potential of underplanting to maximize space and even started doing this. Will underplanting more often! Always loved your videos- thanks for this.
We live in cold Michigan where tomatoes do good in the summer, which shades our lettuce that we plant between rows. We almost always under plant everything on Friendly Food Forest channel. Great video with an even better idea.
I have a small market garden and I run with 30 inch wide beds. This past summer I planted 2 rows of beans with a few inches space on the outside edges of bed. In between these 2 rows of bush beans I planted 2 rows of Radishes. All plants grew together quick enough to keep weeds down. The radishes finished about 3 weeks in when beans were about the same size as the radish tops. Radishes were pulled and the beans filled in the missing space quickly. This gave me 2 crops from one bed, as well as helped keep ground covered so to slow water evaporation as well as shade out weed seedlings. This worked out so well that it will be a standard practice for my bush bean beds this coming year. I also find green or spring onions make a good "under plant" on the outside edges of slow to mature plants. I did them on the outside edges of brassicas this last year and that also worked well and gave me 2 crops in one bed at the same time. Be creative, just do a quick google search to make sure one will not draw pest to the other, or the few combinations where one plant will cause the other to struggle. A quick google search will give a list of good plants to "companion or inter plant" with, and those to avoid. ANYONE in the U.S., I just picked up the 2020 farmers almanac yesterday and it has a chart of good companion plants in it.
Hey Mark! I use sun flowers for my beans to climb up also.
My parents are masters but I am learning now I remember We used to grow edamame beans & pumpkin under corn .. they grow very well & sweet potato as well
WOW! I haven't been paying attention lately - 513K subscribers! Well done, Mark! Wish I could give you 2 thumbs up on your videos.
Great tips on underplanting Mark. I am sure this will help a ton of people out. Congrats on Hal a mil subs pal ;) Well deserved
This is good advice. I just started a garden plot at the local park. Maybe I can do it there.:)
If we had something like that in my suburb of Perth, it'd be trashed and pulled out/run over by trail bikes within a day...
@@Defensive_Wounds Get the bike riders involved and that would change. It's worked in Joburg south Africa, so it's worth a go👍🏻
With our work in Malawi working with subsistence farmers in remote areas they always plant beans at the same time as maize not only add the beans but the beans help the soil which in turn helps the maize, pumpkins are also planted to help with ground cover. Great video, keep up the great work
Thank you. This is a good reminder for my hot summers in Northern California
This is a brilliant channel mate, I'm in a totally different climate but still can't watch enough of these vids
you see I was under the impression corn had to be in blocks of at leats a dozen plants at a time
I've been watching your channel for months now and have just bought my first two raised beds! I'm on heavy clay too but the weather is very different throughout the year here in the UK compared to yours. Thanks for all the info and the wonderful videos. Stay safe.
All the best with your raised beds. They should work well in your climate. Thank you :)
I like the idea of growing corn in raised planters - makes them look quite attractive in a small space
It gets pretty hot here in Sacramento, California...I'm going to borrow all of these tips when I plant for summer! Thank you so much.
Hi Mark! Zone 9 Jacksonville FL here. It's winter, but not really. It's 83 degrees F today. Yep. You read that right. So, like your garden, some opposite season crops are sneaking up, but the best example of underplanting is my black seeded Simpson lettuce that I had coming up under okra understory.
Same lettuce under sugar snap peas and an even smaller underplanting of multi-colored heirloom carrots in between and under the peas.
Hi, I've stumbled upon this Phrase over time by the expert cooks of the world: The difference between an ordinary cook and a great cook is a well stocked Pantry. Well I must be a great cook I have 4 pantry's the largest is a 10 ft. by 10 ft. by 10 ft. room with shelves all around the walls, and reaching to the ceiling. That is full of vegetables, fruits, soups and the like. a second pantry has dried vegetables in half gallon jugs, also canned chicken, pork etc. It is so nice to have my own groceries in my house instead of at the store. Jessie USA
"5 examples of planting extra corn everywhere" :P
Popping corn, red corn, purple corn, and standard sweet corn :)
@@Selfsufficientme From what I remember in Aussie, a half piece of sweet corn is a normal serving. In Canada, about four cobs each is a normal serving :)
@@barbll000 lol not in this household. We love our corn on the cob!
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@@Selfsufficientme whatt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no blue corn lol
A big 👍 from me Mark.
Thank you so much!
Beautiful man and his beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing.
I'm always smiling a bit when you talk about growing crops through winter. Nothing except winter grain grows/survives here in that season ;)
I have some carrots growing under some snow peas. Its winter here so it's mostly just for maximizing space usage. We have a very small yard.
Radishes and carrots around the tomatoes have always work well for me.
If you double space rows of carrots, then put transplanted tomatoes in between, they grow beautifully together. We did a side by side comparison once with Roma tomatoes, only one bed with carrots too. The tomatoes with the carrots produced almost double the crop.
We use the small tomato cages on our pepper and chilies. The medium sized cages work for eggplants. We finally found cages large enough for some of the smaller tomato plants.
Microclimates are lovely. We grow a wonderful key lime tree right up next to the house by a window. It thrives where we shouldn’t be able to grow them. We also have an avocado under a redwood.
Good information, I live in the southern U.S (Also subtropical ) and even though it’s a whole different hemisphere I’ve gleaned lots of useful tips from watching your videos. Example: I am the only person I know successfully growing artichoke in south Louisiana. I have friends look at my artichoke plants with this perplexed look on their face! Usually asking what the heck is that? I tell them come back in June and I will show you. I am just a few weeks away from my spring planting and I assure you I will be experimenting with underplanting. I love the idea of taking advantage of micro climates. 👍👍👍
Hahaha I love the low key “B.S.” 🤣
I am grateful and thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I learn and gain a lot of knowledge from your videos. Thank you sir
Thank you. I'm working with a small space, and I'm actually doing a new garden plot this year. Half of the space I'm alloting is shaded some of the day and the other half is full sun. I was so discouraged about not having enough space to plant everything I want. And I know about companion planting, and three sisters, but for some reason I just wasnt thinking I could really make it work. Not with the space i have. This video very much has uplifted me and encouraged me that even if I'm throwing things in where ever I can fit them, that I can still grow what I want. I just have to get a little creative, and think outside the box. Thanks for that so much. I'm subscribing for more for sure!
love to see the photos of your past giant harvests!
Amazing amount of tomatoes. Absolutely beautiful!
This reminds me of the Native Americans planting corn, beans, and squash together, and with another of your video they would place a fish in the hole when planting. Keep up the good work.
Never saw anyone grow corn in raised tubs, native American tradition is '3 sisters' to grow corn, beans, and squash together. Our summers are hot in southern Idaho and I wouldn't be able to use metal tubs or trellises as they would just burn anything that touches them. Part of it is the days are so long in summer at 45th parallel it's 15 or 16 hours and full sun on your crop is only 6 hours! Happy gardening, love your vids!
Your channel is awesome Mark, I watch it often as I love gardening and im trying to grow as much as I can in my small backyard.
Ive actually never commented on youtube but I had to comment because I laughed out loud with the B.S on the webpage. Haha funny coz its true, I live on outskirts of Sydney those charts are never accurate for me.
Thanks for all your amazing tips and laughs.
Thank you and I'm glad you got a laugh out of my written commentary on the growing guide - I certainly don't give it an A+ Cheers :)
Coming into spring now I have put my lettuce in between my broad beans for extra shade. Working a treat
My wife's mom used to plant things under corn like you're doing to have a longer growing season. We live in Arkansas, USA and we do have cold weather in the winter.
Very helpful Mark. Love all your videos, and as we live in north NZ where our climate is quite similar, it’s logical to follow your advice. Our winters can dip down to 3 degrees Celsius, but only for a few days in winter.
Hi Mark, great video as usual. I have Jerusalem artichokes growing in a bed with concrete wall panels to prevent them taking over the whole front yard. They make an excellent spot for planting climbing beans. These plants grow to around 3 meters here in George, Western Cape. Also have New Zealand spinach growing under the protection of ginger leaves, the temperature here has been unbelievable the last week or so - 41deg C under our porch as an example.
You gave some really interesting ideas I’m hoping to try in my Oklahoma garden. Thanks!
Have you ever tried the 3sisters companion cropping? Corn squash and bean. Corn provides shade and acts as a trellis. Beans climb corn and add nitrogen. Squash covers ground maintaining moisture and keeping down undergrowth. Old Indian method
Hi Mark, Good show, Here in Arkansas USA I allow the weeds to grow up around my tomatoes at the end of the season. The tomatoes will continue to produce till about December. These weeds die at the first frosts eliminating any weed seeds, but the weeds insulate the tomatoes and hold the day time heat in the ground. There is nothing that tastes better than fresh home grown tomatoes in the dead of winter here. Jessie Arkansas USA
I’m learning this way, my first year of gardening here at Hervey Bay, very different to growing at Jimboomba, west of Brisbane, the humidity, never thought tomatoes would be a flop in summer, I’m just now starting to succeed, so many things just burnt in the hot sun
Fantastic! So excited about concepts like these that I've been learning over the last year. Chomping at the bit to put them into action this season!! Thank you for another great video. Entertaining and educational.
Praise the Lord you the fires did not get you. Joy to see that. Love your videos! Praying for everyone on Australia!! Lots of love! ❤ 🙏
Mark im north of you in Qld and I’ve found using black mesh with Whites super fine white mesh over the top of the black cuts out a lot of the UVA and UVB over hoop covers. Allows me to grow corriander, lettuces etc all thru Summer, I use wood mulch over the tops and only need to water every 6 weeks…I’m getting super perfect veg I’ve never been able to grow before in Summer. Great idea to pick young collard leaves.👍
Here in America, the Native Americans had a growing method called the "Three Sisters". Growing squash, corn, and beans in the same location. Squash shades out weeds, corn grows high above the shade, and beans grow up the corn stalk! Try it sometime if you can. Now that I think about it, I bet you can use okra to substitute corn... Hope this helps!
Yeah mate I do it all the time only my version is what me and Rob from "bits out the back" call volunteers.
I only have a courtyard garden and I don't buy soil in, I've only ever built up soil with composting. But I usually only ever slow compost. So all those seeds that are preserved amongst the compost come up whenever it suits them and it's usually underneath another plants shade.
This is a great video. I never considered using corn as a sun shade like this. Thank you. PS. You have been in my thoughts and prayers since the fires started. I was relieved to see your last video.
Love the raised beds. Very clean and tidy. How busy is Mark? He must have his kids help in the garden because he is mostly solo in his videos?
Yes our boys do help with the garden, animals and general work around the property. And I'm still busier than a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. I do try to have some forced breaks though... Cheers ;)
@@Selfsufficientme your the best, love your channel. We need someone like you out here in the Nevada desert giving us newbies good tips like you do in the tropical climate where you live? Thank you Mark for being such a cool teacher in the world of gardening.
I am a market farmer and I do similar things to double production on a given plot of garden. I also use shade cloth to extend growing for certain crops. During the heat of summer it is hard to grow a lot of greens without shade cloth.
Great technique to follow. It gets hot 🥵 here too, so I have also done something similar. I use sunflowers 🌻 too to help shade some plants 😊
That would be a Great video on preserving your bounty of crops to enjoy for the months to come.
I had some nice sugar snap peas last me spring through to the fall last year simply because the plants had some shade through the heat of the summer! They were happy plants!
You can use castor beans for quick, dense, hot season shade. Leaves make great fertilizer and compost.
Also in my case, I let the stressed out "wrong time" plant grow, and although they usually produce just a few seeds, *those seeds* really produce happier plants, drought tolerance is something I specifically breed with my seed saving, maybe you could use this to get summer french beans for example! Thanks for sharing this
I watch from Camden New Jersey USA, love all of your videos.
@ 9:55 HAHAHA!! Love your opinion! Here in New jersey USA collards are a fall plant. They get as big as elephant ears but the secrets to them being sweet is the first frost!
I have been trying this out with some good results in Arizona. The greens seem to do pretty well as undergrowth. I also throw in some marigold flowers.
Hi from Collierville Tn. USA. I planted sugar snap peas under my TOMATOES in mid summer for a Fall harvest. I kept the leaves pulled off of tomatoes on the bottom, especially the brown ones the stuck less seeds around it. I worked for me and it was an experiment. Thanks for your tips.
strawberries and/or wildflowers at the perimeters of beds tend to work phenomenally well for cooling, erosion control, and pest/disease regulation!
Yes "healthily" is proper English, Mark, good on ya.;-)
In North Central Victoria, summers are hot and dry, making it difficult to grow from Jan to Mar but I have a couple of successes. My walking stick Kale shades acts like your corn. The large leaves shade young blclimbing beans and provide a trellis. I have also had success growing turnips under boysenberry bushes.
I really enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing your gardening ideas and experiences!
I’m glad I subscribed. Fantastic channel. Truly fascinating
Garden looks really good!! Very nice beets!
Yup Betcha!! BIG SHADY THUMBS UP 👍 🌽
God bless! 🌱Many Happy Returns In Gardening 🌱
Mark! Thanks for the knowledge you provide
Last year for the first time we had 44 degrees C in October (Sunny Coast hinterland). No seeds would sprout in the garden beds so I had to start seeds in seedling beds under cover on the deck. I am on tank water, so with no rainfall, I had to be careful with irrigation. In the end I had to put up old sheets over the garden so transplanted seedlings (late afternoon) would survive. Now with the sheets up I may try the carrots again.
I would love to see recipes that you eat/ cook. , Whoever does the meal preparation must have a show of their own.
I grew collards right next to kale last winter. The collards were half eaten by bugs but the kale hardly touched.
that's good too! learn the sacrificial plants... Last year our rocket was devastated by bugs, but the curly leaf lettuce, right next to it, was left alone to grow beautifully!
Great info Mark. We are about to move onto our first homestead in subtropical Florida. I always love learning from your experiences and hope to pass on what I learn with my channel in time. Stay safe!
Acorn squash grows well with corn and the broad leaves retain moisture in the soil
Parsley pops up everywhere in my raised garden bed under all my crops
Parsley is AMAZING!! We even had it coming up between paving in our hot part of Australia!! The kids and my mum thought they were hilarious to call it path-ley
I always find good information from you ..
for anyone in the Hot Sun City Arizona area.